I don't remember the exact quote and context, as it's been a few weeks since we watched the episode, but I think it basically meant "go back to your basket (like the good dog you're supposed to be, and not the douchebag you are)".

Nobody fucks Baby in the driver.

I found Life Is Strange somewhat overrated, but it grew on me. The animation's definitely leagues above Telltale, as far as I'm concerned; it's mainly the facial animations that increasingly bother me with Telltale, because everything is overacted to a ludicrous extent, with every emotion being signposted in capital…

My uncle in the UK recording the original Star Wars off ITV and sending it to us on Betamax. We watched it, I loved it, my parents didn't see the point - so the very next day they taped over it, recording some football match or something.

Not sure if it's meaningful to the episode, but "Auflösung" doesn't just translate as "resolution" but also as "dissolution", "disintegration" or "breakup" (the way a group can break up, not the way couples break up). There are also a couple of other possible translations, but these are at least as common as…

The Witcher 3 also lets you deactivate a lot of the handholding and nudging with respect to quests, and for me this immediately improved it. It's one thing to come upon a quest while you're doing things you were planning to do anyway; it's another if the map tells you immediately, "Go there! And there! And don't miss…

Nitpicky quibble, but "on thee premiere"? Pretty sure that should be "thy".

If only we could talk to the smart TVs…

Not my reaction to the film. I was surprised by how much humour - not necessarily of the laugh-out-loud kind, but definitely a sly subversion of the high drama - there was in Manchester by the Sea.

Agreed, at least on Mulholland Drive. (Haven't seen Lost Highway in a while, and I've yet to see Inland Empire.) It's also one of the things that kept me from enjoying it fully back then - as a puzzle that can be solved, I found it got to me much less than other Lynch movies where there's always some threads left…

Jude the Obscure has a couple of those moments. The bit towards the end where he's basically dying in bed while there's the parade outside and you always get the juxtaposition between bitter Jude and the crowds outside going "Hurrah!" Not subtle, but so effective.

Black metal matters.

I've only read his Red Son, but that one works very well IMO. Imagine my surprise when I then read and hear about the many, many ways in which so much of his other work seems truly awful and how hated the guy is. There's none of Wanted's obnoxious "Fuck you!" 'tude in Red Son, as far as I could tell.

I see what you're saying, but I still think it's a bit of a misrepresentation. He's usually concerned with what is right, but he's far from a Puritan. It's not about vices in any abstract, dogmatic or ideological way - it's about doing nothing in the face of very concrete injustice. At least the films I've seen all…

I might give you the first one, but since when has Loach been anti-pleasure?

I remember being rather lukewarm about the film; while Mazzello is fine, I very much dislike Spielberg's '90s kids, which all veered towards the annoyingly saccharine. Moreover, I expected Jurassic Park to be more like Jaws, but '90s Spielberg IMO had a shaky handle on his sentimentalist tendencies. The film never…

I'm pretty surprised at people being so positive about Broadchurch S2. Apart from Miller and Hardy, I thought it was pretty much dreadful. Yes, there were some good actors, and they managed to improve on the script at times, but the writing and plotting were shoddy. In S1, the drama came from interesting characters…

I remember finding this pretty dreadful in Sophie's Choice, where the narrator character's narration was simply atrocious. In a film about the Holocaust you shouldn't sit there thinking that the true crime against humanity is the writing…

I see what you mean, but there are too many scenes in this one where Binoche and Stewart rehearse scenes from the play for me to ignore how badly it's written. It's less that Maloja Snake fails to be a magnificent work of art than the film failing to handle it so it doesn't matter that it's less than amazing in its…

The scenes between Binoche and Stewart work well. The rest… less so, in my opinion. One major problem I had with this film is that Maloja Snake is supposed to be such a great work, yet every line we hear from it sounds hackneyed, heavy-handed and simply bad literature. This could be used to great effect, yet the film…